Craft: An American History

At the center of the United States' economic and social development, according to conventional wisdom, are industry and technology—while craftspeople and handmade objects are relegated to a bygone past. Renowned historian Glenn Adamson turns that...

Bricks: Now and Then

“Architecture starts when you carefully put two bricks together. There it begins.” - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe Buildings made of brick are found in very different epochs and cultures all over the world. Always astonishing, the qualities of...

Spencerian Penmanship Practice Book: Declaration of Independence

It’s no secret that improving your Spencerian penmanship requires practice. Fortunately, this helpful workbook offers over 180 pages of phrases and sentences for you to refine your lettering.  Across the top of each page is carefully...

The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty

Ever wondered how Marie Antoinette achieved her sky-high hairstyle or how women in the 1700s created their voluminous frizz hairdos? The American Duchess Guide to 18th Century Beauty answers all your Georgian beauty questions―and teaches you all you need...

Christmas Decorations from Colonial Williamsburg

The Holiday decorations that have long been associated with a Williamsburg Christmas are featured in this book. Beautiful Photography, descriptive text, and twenty-seven charming color drawings present ideas and how-tos for creating wreaths, cones,...

The Art of Quilting: A Coloring and Pattern Book

Both coloring and quilting tap into creativity within disciplines defined by lines, borders, and structure. The patterns in this book, all of which are taken from quilts in Colonial Williamsburg's extraordinary collection can be used not only for...

Salt-Glazed Stoneware in Early America

Stoneware was ubiquitous in colonial and early American homes. In the first comprehensive book on the topic, Colonial Williamsburg curators Janine E. Skerry and Suzanne Findlen Hood chronicle the traditions of stoneware imported from England and Germany...

Organic Fiber Dyeing

Traditional Dyes for Modern Fabric Lovers. Color, color, and more color-dyeing fabric was just as important to the citizens of 18th-century America in places such as Williamsburg, Virginia, as it is to today's quilters and fabric artists. Using...

Eighteenth Century Clothing at Williamsburg

Antique clothing worn by men, women, and children in the eighteenth century offering a revealing glimpse into the lives of colonial Virginians in Colonial Williamsburg. Accessories such as aprons, gloves, hats, handkerchiefs, fans, shoes, stockings, and...

Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum Booklet

Titled Revolution & Evolution: Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum booklet is a catalog of the 2017 Winter Antiques Show loan exhibit which is also an introduction to the extraordinary treasures of the Abby Aldrich Folk Art Museum and to the...

Christmas in Williamsburg

Jointly published by Colonial Williamsburg and National Geographic, Christmas in Williamsburg takes the history of Christmas in Williamsburg as a lens through which to view the holiday's evolution in America. Here are 300 years of family traditions along...

The Art-Full Tree: Ornaments to Make Inspired by the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Folk Art Museum

The Artfull Tree is full of art in every sense—filled with art from the museum's collection and filled with inspired ideas for turning that art—or any art—into new works for you and your family to treasure. Based on art from the Abby...

Painters and Paintings in the Early American South

This book by the Juli Grainger Curator at the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation gathers into one volume a large body of materials related to the paintings and the artists of the American South between 1564 and 1790. It includes not only portraits —...